diff --git a/_layouts/default.html b/_layouts/default.html
index cc35ba0e6f1d..669729f9a6a7 100644
--- a/_layouts/default.html
+++ b/_layouts/default.html
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
----
-layout: parse
----
diff --git a/_layouts/parse.html b/_layouts/parse.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 4da5f35df186..000000000000
--- a/_layouts/parse.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-{%- if site.remove_HTML_comments -%}
- {%- assign _comments = "" | split: " " -%}
- {%- capture _comment_befores -%}{{ content }}{%- endcapture -%}
- {%- assign _comment_befores = _comment_befores | split: _comments.first -%}
- {%- for _comment_before in _comment_befores -%}
- {%- if forloop.first -%}
- {%- continue -%}
- {%- endif -%}
- {%- capture _comment_outside -%}
- {%- if _carry -%}
- {{ _comments.first }}
- {%- endif -%}
- {{ _comment_before }}
- {%- endcapture -%}
- {%- capture _comment -%}
- {%- unless _carry -%}
- {{ _comments.first }}
- {%- endunless -%}
- {{ _comment_outside | split: _comments.last | first }}
- {%- if _comment_outside contains _comments.last -%}
- {{ _comments.last }}
- {%- assign _carry = false -%}
- {%- else -%}
- {%- assign _carry = true -%}
- {%- endif -%}
- {%- endcapture -%}
- {%- assign content = content | remove_first: _comment -%}
- {%- endfor -%}
-{%- endif -%}
-{{ content | beautify | minify }}